Leonid Lavrovsky’s celebrated production of Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is released for the first time in HD, and in a Double Play, blu-ray and DVD package. Filmed in the historic Mariinsky Theatre in 2013, it stars Mariinsky ballet dancers Diana Vishneva, Vladimir Shklyarov, Alexander Sergeyev, Islom Baimurado, Ilya Kuznetsov and is conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Lavrovsky’s realisation was created at the Mariinsky Theatre in January 1940, and the staging has been treasured in St. Petersburg ever since and this production still honours that original version. Guided by the dramatic force and lyrical power of Prokofiev’s score, Lavrovsky’s choreography creates a grandly moving portrait of the star-crossed lovers and the Renaissance society which frames their tragedy.
